🔋 In Australia, a home battery boom has helped cut wholesale power prices
The program links household battery adoption with broader grid management, particularly by shifting stored solar power into the evening hours when electricity demand peaks.
Australia has installed more than 500,000 home batteries under a subsidy program launched in July 2025, according to officials. The government says the battery boom has helped households store surplus rooftop solar energy and contributed to a roughly 47 percent decline in wholesale electricity prices over the past year. The program offers a 30 percent discount on eligible residential battery systems and is part of a broader effort to make better use of abundant midday solar generation.
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🤖 Qwen 3.8 27B
The repository is designed to make this quantized Qwen variant readily usable across several established inference frameworks while preserving reported model performance.
The Qwen3.8-27B-FP8 repository provides FP8-quantized weights and configuration files for a post-trained Qwen model in Hugging Face Transformers format. It uses fine-grained FP8 quantization with a block size of 128, and the repository says its performance metrics are nearly identical to those of the original model. The artifacts are compatible with frameworks including Hugging Face Transformers, vLLM, SGLang, and TokenSpeed.
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🦊 Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin
The change gives Firefox a distinctive position among major browsers for users who want continued access to the full uBlock Origin extension.
Firefox is described as the last major browser that still supports the full uBlock Origin extension after Microsoft Edge followed Chromium’s migration from Manifest V2 to Manifest V3. Other browsers either do not support uBlock Origin or require users to use the more limited uBlock Origin Lite or built-in blocking tools.
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🗳️ Count Binface receives over a quarter of votes in Clacton by-election
The result stands out because Binface secured more than a quarter of the vote, far exceeding the level usually associated with a purely novelty candidacy.
Count Binface won 26.9 percent of the vote in the Clacton by-election, receiving a personal record of 9,455 votes. Nigel Farage won the contest with 63.3 percent, while Binface’s result marked his strongest electoral showing after several previous campaigns against prominent political figures.
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💬 Comments in the code vs PR description
The practical rule is about durability: review-specific reasoning belongs with the pull request, while information future maintainers still need should live in the code.
The article explains that pull request descriptions and code comments serve different purposes. Pull request text should capture point-in-time justification, validation, alternatives, and review context, while code comments should preserve durable information about how the code works or should be used. Examples show why temporary project context can become misleading when embedded permanently in source code.
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🎮 The Art of CHIP-8
Its small instruction format makes CHIP-8 a useful teaching platform for understanding how an interpreter processes a virtual instruction set.
The article introduces CHIP-8, a compact programming language and virtual instruction-set architecture created for the 1977 COSMAC VIP computer. Because CHIP-8 programs use simple two-byte instructions, implementing a CHIP-8 interpreter has become a popular educational exercise for learning the fundamentals of emulators and older computer systems.
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🔎 SlopScan: Displays a “slop score” when viewing public git repositories
The extension brings repo-slopscore results directly into common code-hosting interfaces, reducing the need to check repository scores separately.
SlopScan is a Firefox WebExtension that displays a repository’s slop-score letter grade while browsing supported Git hosting services. It works with repo-slopscore through a configurable web server and currently supports GitHub, Codeberg, and SourceHut, with an option to scan the current page manually.
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🌐 Computing graph dominators
The post emphasizes dominator trees as a practical way to reason about which nodes are unavoidable on paths through a rooted dependency graph.
The post explains graph dominators and presents an algorithm for computing them, building on the author’s earlier work using dominator trees to reason about dependency graphs. A node dominates another when every path from the graph’s root to that node passes through the dominating node, making dominator relationships useful for understanding structural dependencies.
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